Catherine Herring from Texas was seven weeks pregnant when her husband, Mason Herring, who is an attorney secretly wanted to remove the pregnancy.
“He was like, ‘I noticed during spring break that you don’t drink enough water, and I think you should start every day with a big glass. It’ll make you feel better,’” Catherine recalls.
However, Catherine became suspicious of her husband when she became violently ill after drinking a glass of water he’d given her in March 2022.
After the first poisoning on March 17, doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Suspicious, she began collecting the drinks he was preparing for her as evidence, and she set up cameras to monitor him.
After seeing him on surveillance footage putting out the trash, she checked the garbage and discovered a package for a drug that induces abortions, Misoprostol. Soon after, a private investigator she hired installed cameras in the air conditioning vent in the kitchen.
That same day, she says, “My husband made me [a] drink in the kitchen” — and his actions were caught on camera.
The video captured Mason pouring juice into a pink plastic cup, and then pulling a Ziploc bag out of his pocket containing crushed-up pills, which he dumped into the cup.
Mason was initially charged with felony assault to induce abortion but accepted a plea agreement to charges of injury to a child and assault of a pregnant person. He was sentenced to 6 months in jail and 10 years of probation.
The couple had three children, and he had wanted the pregnancy to end because he felt it would ‘ruin his plans’. He was having an affair with a subordinate at work and wanted to be with the new partner.